In an age of blockbusters and ever bigger and grander exhibitions, The Greats: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland puts a compelling case for 'less is more'. This model exhibition demonstrates how satisfying a relatively small exhibition can be when the right works are chosen and installed handsomely. The Greats – comprising forty-one paintings and fewer drawings – feels much larger than it is. There are seventy artists, drawn from the end of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth.

Sydney is the final destination for this touring exhibition from the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), after stops at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, and the Kimbell Museum of Art in Fort Worth. That the NGS has lent many of its 'destination' pictures is due to a building project in Edinburgh to extend the gallery there.